Seven Men Went Through Hell To Be The First Americans In Spacehttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-mercury-seven-project-2012-9/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:26:22 -0500Dina Spectorhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50754da76bb3f7ba0f000001hursitWed, 10 Oct 2012 06:27:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50754da76bb3f7ba0f000001
You had to have lived through these times to appreciate the awe people had for the space program. Everything shut down for a launch: TVs and radios were brought into classrooms and every kid I knew could recite the names of the astronauts and the missions they flew on.
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Yeah, but Tom Wolfe disdained these guys, particularly in the book. The guys with "real stuff" were the X-15 test pilots, not the "spam in a can" crowd.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5054e3b769bedd677c00000bHarold GSat, 15 Sep 2012 16:23:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5054e3b769bedd677c00000b
What this article calls "Hell", these men would refer to as just another day at the office.
The only real problem with America is that American's have become a bunch of namby pamby candied a$$ cry babies. Have to listen to a bunch of whiny "oh no it's the end of world" crap.
This was when people didn't cry, they fixed things that needed to be fixed.
They were born into the Roaring 20's, grew up in the Great Depression and came of age in World War II. After surviving all of that, of course anything seemed possible.
Pardon me, I have to go off an thump on my chest and make grunting sounds now... sorry about the unedited stream of consciousness there... but, not sorry enough not to click the submit button.
By the way, read "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5054b3f96bb3f71d3d000028KCRobSat, 15 Sep 2012 12:59:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5054b3f96bb3f71d3d000028
Here's one advantages to having been born in the fifties: growing up with national greatness. Yes, yes, the US had its problems but the problems were seen as things we could solve - not reasons to hate ourselves.
You had to have lived through these times to appreciate the awe people had for the space program. Everything shut down for a launch: TVs and radios were brought into classrooms and every kid I knew could recite the names of the astronauts and the missions they flew on.
The Soviets, I am certain, had every bit as much pride in their space heroes as we had in ours. Those were the days.